There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Great news, which means we can put an 80% wealth tax on billionaires since they don't need to hoard so much money for retirement I suppose.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Fuck ICE and illegal wars. Impeach Trump. No Kings.

A-HEM Time again we revisit this and this time let's GET IT DONE @dorismatsui.bsky.social @adamschiff.com @padilla.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social Quick-and-Easy Resources youtu.be/Nym3sQhkhww?... youtu.be/XCjDg5qzZTo?... @calelectricrail.org

My "One cool trick" of the week, as far as #housing policy goes: Make off-street parking requirements unenforceable throughout the entire state of California. Don't make them ILLEGAL, make them UNENFORCEABLE. As far as I can tell, this would be a zero cost reform with no burden on local governments

I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. Say it with me. I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES. I HAVEN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.

My journey was...odd. Spoiled suburban kid in New Orleans wanting big house but loves trains/streetcars \|/ College: Architecture -> CompSci -> Film [Reads Rob Post's "Urban Mass Transit"] -> Switches major to Acct -> Urban Econ degree -> Reads Shoup and speedruns Urbanist conversion in 9 months.

In today's lessons learned: always double-check your wording to make who you're talking about very clear.

It's pretty fucking appalling that the same people who claim they want to "protect the children" will bring those same children to an anti-abortion rally and subject them to "gore porn" visuals that give me, a grown-ass adult, difficulties even forgetting.

Fast, frequent regional rail is an economic justice issue. Car-free job access in car-dependent areas will reduce inequality and improve affordability. And we need better project delivery to deliver rail improvements like electrification in the Inland Empire, Central Valley, etc. in our lifetimes.

@wtyppod.bsky.social They're still mad they didn't get to do Project Plowshare

The Glebe BIA had a report done about the area. We think this image perfectly encapsulates the reason for hesitancy by the business owners to get rid of parking. While 86% of the respondents who come to shop said they get there by means other than driving, 94% of the owners said they drove.

This is why "but what about parking" should never be taken in good faith as a reason not to make room for bike infrastructure. This doesn't even have anything to do with bikes...it's about emergency vehicles not being able to get down the street bc it's too narrow...and people are throwing tantrums

This is REALLY important — Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams, and debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today's information society. That's why curriculum for students in Finland includes media literacy lessons aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth. V/@aljazeera.com

Way too many people I think treat the way our voting system works as an excuse to feel no remorse or responsibility for the actions of the politicians they vote for and elect. I think we should normalize not allowing them this luxury. You voted Trump? You voted for everything he's done and will do.

Just an anecdotal example of why driving in a dense city isn't as convenient as you might think. I once had an altercation one evening with a driver at 16th & K Streets here in Sacramento as I was walking east on K. I reached 20th St at the same time that they reached that intersection via J St

Amazing watching CBS affiliate stations in NYC and NJ struggle to find a way to paint the new Portal Bridge in a negative light.

A classic reminder from @davewalker.bsky.social that might prove helpful for a few of your coworkers, friends, and family

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

This is almost the exact amount of money that has been spent trying to build California's high speed rail system since voters approved the project in 2008.

An emergency

When I hear people say "i couldn't do that with a bike" I so desperately wish they had even a fraction of the options available here that are available in countries like NL. This is an e-assisted TRAILER rated up to a quarter-ton of cargo

@senatorashby.bsky.social We do NOT want these things in Sacramento

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Vote Kat.

This challenge is so frustrating because it's actually a product of many bad policy choices made by American states and cities over the years. There's no one simple solution and so long as we keep INSISTING on a simple solution, we'll never actually eliminate the problem.

"Let them eat steak"

Clap them all in chains like the criminals that they are. Go medieval on them, no punishment is too harsh.

The wildest thing about these types of videos, from the US perspective, is how you see the "before" video and think it's the "after"

I watched through the whole segment to see what actually killed him. I was expecting some exploding poo bag that caused a gas rupture or something. Not "kids do normal, harmless prank and then hit and kill him with a car while trying to get away"(no link due to FOX affiliate station)

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high taxpayer cost. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Housing the unhoused saves money. Via @fastcompany.com

Decided to finally make a new youtube channel and kick it off with a "Guys, listen..." vlog about people who got mad at a graphic tee

Real patriots ride the train.

I think not a lot of stuff can make you speedrun the transition from privileged, ignorant white kid to aggressively prog-left than being queer, weird AND having most of your culture sphere be artists, creatives, and luminaries who are ALSO almost all weird, queer and frequently trans in particular.

USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense.

“𝙻𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚒𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚒𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍.” Some quotes, like this one from American social reformer and women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony from 1896, echo through the ages. 👇

So this is just blatantly a war crime, right? No "ifs", "ands", or "butts" about it?

It's been 10 years since i worked a cafe pulling espresso and we weren't a specialty place so learning to dial in the #flairespresso machine I just got is fun, if tedious. Upside is that after a certain point, the espresso is totally drinkable which means you get to drink your mistakes, lol

Congress is advancing these censorship bills out of committee. As usual, special interest groups have waved the evergreen banner of "think of the children" hoping that our representatives are too stupid or self-interested to oppose these awful bills. @padilla.senate.gov @dorismatsui.bsky.social

"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."

This is so sad. Thanks to 9News Denver. #carlife Remember kids, cars kill indiscriminately www.9news.com/article/news....

Could make you cry if your emotional bandwidth weren't already maxed out and overdrawn

Fun fact: as much of a train, bicycle, and transit nerd as I am I'm also a massive car nerd with an addiction to small, modestly-powered sports cars and narrow squiggly mountain roads. (I'm parked off the side of the road. My phone stays in my bag at all times when driving unless I'm safely parked)

CAN WE IMPEACH HIM NOW FOR FUCKS SAKE

I deleted the thread on emotional crash outs because I can say it more succinctly like this: Check on your emotionally reserved friends. A lot of us don't express distress openly and many people mistake that for invulnerability or hypercompetence. I find that especially true among trans people.

Someone way smarter than me must have already asked and debated the answer to this question but: Could something like the UN in some way, shape, or form take control of and run a platform like Bluesky and would that be better, in theory, than the current arrangement?